Kaiuolani

The bugle call, clear and shrill, rang out upon the still, hollow air of a mild winter’s morning, as the queen and her invited guests, alike the royalty and commonalty of fair H...

Presently the princess came and sat by the side of her aunt, the queen. Ihoas bowed herself away and as quickly disappeared below, where she sought relief and opportunity in the...

The bestowal of an honor so vital, to their way of thinking, could but arouse deep and widespread interest, especially now that the public mind had reached a high state of nervo...

The assembly halls echoed an ominous awakening on the following morning when the legislature began to hustle within the broad corridors or gather upon the marble steps in front....

With the passage of the bill, the old regime, of cat-hauling and graft-taking, which had for so long a time disturbed their peace and threatened dire disaster, bade fair to beco...

The sudden revelation momentarily overcame the anxious Patriot, but looking Kaiuolani in the face he read afresh the lesson of traditional loyalty. The young princess may have b...

The signing of the bill had been deferred--not from want of decision, but as a matter of policy--until, having had a few days’ reflection, the public mind should adapt itself to...

The assembling of the patriots began early the next morning, and never before in the history of Hawaii had they witnessed such an outburst of genuine sympathy. A thousand troops...

The intrigue in reality began with Bender’s rise to prominence, though long before that the elements out of which it finally grew and at last so rapidly assumed form had taken r...

The reception at Kahilui had long ceased to be a subject for gossip when the clouds of destruction began to gather and settle round the court at Honolulu. Lord and Lady Xenoav h...

“Then,” said Gutenborj, “we are safe; I have just been informed by the new minister of finance that the queen is desirous of carrying out the program as laid down and sanctioned...

Again freed from interruption, Bender resumed his seat and began, nervously, to twist at his short-cropped mustaches. The force necessary to carry out his plans had been effecti...

Sir Charles gloried in his daughter’s triumph, and marvelling the extent of her democracy quite forgot the circumstance of Bender’s apparent frustration. It were enough that his...

As the disappointed lover rode away, down the avenue, toward the city in the foreground, Kaiuolani hastened to the window above and peering from behind the half-drawn curtains s...

First one and then another retired until finally only the officials, the foreign diplomats, the Patriots, and a partial representation of Royalists remained. Gutenborj held his...

The guards stood lined up on either side the driveway leading through the palace grounds to the main entrance in front. A strong reserve rested upon loaded arms at the rear, and...

Liliuokolani turned cold with pallor, and Gutenborj paced the floor like the caged lion he seemed. Kaiuolani grew impatient and hostile with suspense, and only Aokahameha tried...

The rattle and peal of fife and drum drove from every source the last lingering doubt. Uhlrix was on the march, and the shadows of intrigue or the uncertainty of authority bore...

The palace housed securely its fate. Liliuokolani faltered in the midst of a confusion utterly beyond her control, much less understanding; only Kaiuolani was left to counsel co...

The nonplussed messenger made no reply; just whom he sought or where to begin had not dawned upon Uhlrix’s mind, much less had it occurred to the aid who carried his dispatch.

Uhlrix met the young colonel in the open. The lines were drawn up, facing each other, between the two buildings--the palace directly in rear of Young’s division, the capitol wel...

Elmsford and his now disconcerted company had safely reached Lord Xenoav’s island possession, the beautiful villa and estate at Diamond Head, where the British flag was made to...

With a trampled queen doggedly clinging to an unheeded, hinderless authority and Kaiuolani speeding toward but a conjectured mission the long sown, potently dormant seed of rest...

Promptly at twelve o’clock, as announced, the doors of the armory were thrown open to the straggling few who ventured or ambled thither. These were, though, however reduced in n...

The revolution had come and gone like an avalanche,--whence, no one knew; to what purpose, none foresaw,--leaving in the wake of its savage rush the bared intent and beaten hope...

Anticipating Rand’s report, and waxing eager with determination to do justice and serve his own restricted inclinations, the president duly appointed a successor, and began with...

The president’s instructions to his own carefully selected minister were generally thought to be unqualifiedly positive; so much so, that all factions and everybody closely iden...

Everywhere throughout America men’s blood ran hot. It mattered not that the rising furor’s inception lay grovelling in fraud and deceit: whether the constitution forbade expansi...

Upon arriving in America a second time, though absent but a few short weeks, it seemed as if some overpowering influence, something larger, more effective and evasive than human...

Amazed and terror stricken everybody cowered or ran to cover under stress of Cole’s surprising growth. Upon the floor or in the lobbies his will soon came to resolving their act...

Their countrymen had planted it, right or wrong, to stay: as evidenced by the native element’s inability to prevent another’s taking its place. Young’s final coup had proven to...

Thus the new thought rooted and spread as Kaiuolani had foreseen and chosen. That the giant forces within its provisioned reach should drive and take where least resistance held...

Back in the mountains or out upon the plains the same spirit (if opposite in form), that under-lay America’s advancement urged a simpler minded, deeper wrought people to gather...

The last note in Bender’s discordant life had fairly sounded. The awful visitation left him a wreck: a doubter in man himself. All the things of earth that he had been able to m...

With Young’s capture and Wayntro’s retreat the already toppling government awakened to fresh dangers and sought to invoke a last privilege: martial law was, therefore, promptly...

The trial and punishment of Aokahameha’s prisoners conceded, finally, to range within army provinces alone, the administration set about casting its net for a really more commen...

Perhaps he reverently contemplated the will of Kaiuolani; or, doubting, earnestly looked forward to an apparently last and only recourse; more likely a recently disclosed confli...

Like magic the new Territory settled into a veritable workshop. Lofty ideals and heroic attainment lulled and languished under the sordid quest of political preferment and mater...

The elections, now close at hand, were of no moment; Cole had selected his man, whose broadening comprehension and settled opportunity fired ambition with larger aims, conjuring...